Your very own portable ice rink
Pretty much every kid has wished they had their own personal ice rink during the winter, some may have even gone so far as to break out the hose and try to ice their driveway, much to the annoyance of their parents. Don’t try that last one, it ends up not giving you enough ice, but it does give you enough to slip about a hundred times. Now you can get your own kid, or maybe yourself, a portable, storable ice rink for use in the winter, it doesn’t even require tools to set up.
The rink just takes a couple of consecutive days of freezing temperatures to be skater-ready. And you don’t need a super flat backyard for this, the design can accommodate dips and other oddities in your yard. During a freak increase of temperature, the framing system will keep all the water in. A vinyl underlining protects your poor, poor grass, and the rigid PVC framework prevents cuts to the rinks’ frame. If your grass somehow manages to cut the vinyl, fear not, as a repair kit is included. Painted into the rink are the blue and red lines, familiar to any hockey lover.
Your rink can be as small as 15 feet, or as large as 37. Prices start at $200 but go as high as $600. Anybody living in frequent cold weather (Canada anyone?) with a hockey/skating loving kid with a big backyard should check the Portable Back Yard Ice Rink out, it’s pretty sweet. I want one, but with it being 70 degrees today in December, I don’t think it’ll get much use.
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Jimmie McKannis Says: April 19, 2007 at 10:16 am
I built this backyard porta rinks for my kids this company has a great product! I have also seen lots of other port rinks sold from Nice Rink and RinkRake and BackyardIceRinks lots of good companies but this rinx setup is truly portable and easy as pie to setup and take down. I highly recommend getting one of these portarinks I think they also call them ice and go rinx they are built with pvc pipe and a great liner. The Nice Rinx company also sells a porta rinx product but theirs uses a special bracket rather than the PVC pipe used by the company in Canada, they are Farly Tech I had to contact them about some replacement parts. I think Nice Rink also sells a lawn mower for the ice the thing is an ice mower to mow down the bumps just like ice mowers and edgers they use in the NHL!
Web Warning from Dave Black Says: September 27, 2007 at 12:58 am
My name is Dave Black and I too have been building porta rinx for years in fact decades perhaps longer than anyone LOL
I just want to comment that I made a nice post on a blog about back yard porta rinx and this guy Damian Renzelle jumped all over my post and claims to have invented porta rinx LOL
Well I found some interesting information about this Renzello guy which I think everyone should know and to teach this guy a lesson about jumping on people’s posts with some sort of consumer fraud SPAM
Jimmie while I will agree partly with your post that there is a company Nice Rinx which has a great product http://www.nicerink.com I found the exact same porta rinx product that this Renzello guy sells for thousands and thousands of dollars for just 200 dollars on Amazon.com! I provided a link to it at the end of this post.
Here is some more information on this Renzello character BEWARE of doing business with this Vermont Company run by Damien Renzullo
This Damian Rnezelo guy claims to have invented Porta Rinx which is not true! I made a nice post on a blog not even talking abou this guy and he jumped all over my post claiming to have invented porta rinx 10 years ago LOL my family has been building porta rinx in our back yard since 1971 as I said in my post certainly longer than ten years this guy claims to have invented the porta rinx. If you read his website portarix.com you will see some “web warning” about people slandering his name. I certainly did not. I did not even post anything about him. But this guy jumped on my post and wrote a bunch of stuff so I recently Googled his name “Damian j Renzello” and found some interesting stuff like this article that he is a Lawsuit for Tax Fraud and Fraud against the government, I think it is the same guy it says he deliberately falsified documents to defraud the Judiciary in the United States and talks about all sorts of lawsuits he has been involved in and even gives a quote from the cheif Attorney in Vermont USA that the State of Vermont took some action against him for “violation of the Consumer Fraud Act” and that he “decieved consumers” go figure since it looks like he is buying a 200 dollar PVC porta rinx kit and reselling it for thousands of dollars! BEWARE of Web based companies.
http://express-press-release.com/35/Fraud%20Against%20the%20Government%20is%20Rampant%20in%20Vermont%20According%20to%20Court%20Documents.php
If anyone wants help building their own porta rinx or wants to buy directly from the source email me or check out a reputable source to buy from like Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006NDBPM/ref=nosim/?tag=dealtime-toys-20&creative=380333&creativeASIN=B0006NDBPM&linkCode=asn
Damian Renzello Says: November 21, 2007 at 8:18 pm
FYI – This guy is slandering my good name and business. Do not believe his hype, he is full of nothing but BS, check out my web site check out waybackmachine, my web site goes back almost 7 years, you can also check out my letters from past customers, as well as news articles from almost 11 years ago, here is a direct link to my web site, http://www.PortaRinxandBambini.com
I started from nothing 11 years ago, it is a sin for this so called David Black to be slandering my good name and business, I have worked 10, going 11 hard years building my Porta-Rinx name and buisness, David you are the slime bag! May the good lord repay you … 10 times fold, so let it be written so let the 10 time fold begin!
To the rest of you, have a safe and fun ice skating season, enjoy the holidays,
PS Brushback when you get a minute give me a call regarding these comments made by David Black 802 479-1880 Thank you, Sincerely yours, Damian J. Renzello Inventor/Entrepreneur
D Black Says: May 2, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Just thought others would want to know this scammmer Renzello defrauded our family too!
We now see there are tons of negative reports about this scammer Renzello, and his rip-offs!
Just read some of the reveiws about Renzello and his mirage of fake companies and scam attempts: portarinks, Damian J Products, Bambini (no relation to Zamboni) but Renzello claims there is one)
Damian J. Renzello and Porta Rinx and Bambini STOLE our MONEY! Don’t send this CROOK any money and just look at all the lawsuits he is in and has been in, from State to Federal Court to the Attorney General of Vermont suing him for consumer fraud! STAY AWAY!
Porta Rinx Says: May 3, 2010 at 2:44 pm
FYI on this Renzello fellow who appears to be a total nut. I cannot believe he gets away wish scamming so many families! Truly amazing he is such a scammer and is allowed to walk with those of us who are hard working!
Here are some links to cases and articles about this scumbag:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/sporting-goods/damian-renzello-port/damian-renzello-porta-rinx-a-24374.htm
Rich Says: December 1, 2006 at 11:23 pm
it looks fun but if your like me and live in alaska how do you fill it up without freezing and busting your water pipes